Managing Spreadsheet Risk from within your SAP environment

Thursday 28th July 2016 at 12:00pm
- 1:00pm

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If like many organisations, you are frustrated at the
mainly standard, readily structured reports available in SAP, you are most
likely still using Excel to do a lot of the ‘heavy lifting’ reporting.
Regardless of IT policy, it is still the go-to tool for most users to transform
their data into something meaningful.

Static spreadsheets inherently create issues around
version control, complex cross referencing, master data references and
calculation errors, all of which is an audit risk. The responsibility for this
tends to fall between the Business and IT and can become a necessary evil.

In this webcast, hear from EKO – the
largest commercial group in the Eastern European energy sector – on how
they have overcome these issues using an SAP add-in from Excel4apps that means
you can access live data in real-time from an Excel front-end. Your data
remains in SAP, but you view it from Excel, so you achieve a genuine single
version of the truth. Understand how EKO have solved many SAP process
challenges to reduce financial reporting and consolidation time significantly,
driving improved decision making. See a live demo of the management reporting capabilities
in GL Wand, and EKO’s next steps with its transformation project.

Our
Speakers

Simon
Parkes – SAP Solutions Specialist, Excel4apps

Simon
has been working in the SAP eco-system for the last 20 years. He worked for SAP
for 9 years and with SAP Partners for the remainder. His focus has always been
SAP ERP Financials in one guise or another. His roles over the years have
changed from being a project-focused Trainer at the outset to Functional Lead
Consultant and Senior Presales Consultant for SAP more latterly. As the Finance
Training Team Lead, Simon guided new functional consultants through FI-CO
Certification. Simon
has a varied industry knowledge having both sold to and implemented SAP within
both Public Sector – Utilities – and Private Sector customers. He
currently works for Excel4apps as an SAP Solution Specialist where he engages
with customers who are looking to extend and improve the capability of their
existing ERP implementations

Bozhidar
Pavlov – Head of Finance, EKO

Since
joining EKO in 2006, Bozhidar has held various finance and project management
positions both within the company, where he is currently employed as the Head
of Finance, and other divisions within the Hellenic Petroleum Group. There, he
has been involved in controlling and reporting systems’ integration development
with responsibilities for Bulgaria, Serbia, Montenegro, Cyprus, and
FYROM. Prior
to joining the Hellenic Petroleum Group, Bozhidar filled various finance roles
in other major fossil fuel companies in Bulgaria. He has extensive experience
with SAP implementation projects and support, having worked on its introduction
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